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Comment Re:Lift the gag order first... (Score 1) 550

Also for the record, I expect that within a year, it WILL increase my monthly internet bill. I've never met a bureaucrat yet that didn't like a few more dollars of taxes collected.

I expect that ISPs will add a "fee" for net neutrality compliance. This fee will have zero connection to any taxes or costs incurred by ISPs -- it will be a hidden price increase and extra profits by ISPs.

Yeah, so what? This is 'murica and the free market rulez. If you don't like your ISP's fees, you can go someplace else. Right?

Comment Re:Politics aside for a moment. (Score -1, Troll) 538

Yes, like every other political figure who has attempted to hide their activity from public scrutiny by breaking the rules that are there to ensure such scrutiny is possible. Let's be doubly clear, Hillary is as guilty of this crime as are any number of Republican crooks, but just watch the right-wing pundits whip themselves into a wild-eyed, spit-spraying frenzy of this particular offender.

Comment Re:Default Government Stance (Score 0) 194

Not very well I must admit. But it only fair to point out that the Supreme Court Justices who voted to grant citizenship rights to corporations (whose interest are, more often than not, quite apart from those of real citizens) were appointed by Republican presidents. The result? Laws are for little people. Shut up and take what your corporate betters tell you is best for you.

Comment Re: thanks (Score 1) 211

Yes, I have noticed that bad drugs reach the market. I've also noticed why - a steady erosion of the effectiveness of the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. That erosion is paid for by that industry.
I have noticed the food recalls, too. Who do you think issued the recalls, you moron? That's right - government regulatory agencies. Without them fare more people would sickened or killed every year.

Comment Re:Kinda stupid since (Score 1) 531

Who is to say that a AI does not have a soul?

In the absence of proof that a thing does exist, the reasonable assumption is that it does not. This is especially true when evaluating the assertions of those who would have you believe things in a book purported to be authored by an invisible man in the sky.

Comment Re:Welcome to reality (Score 1) 114

We'll never solve these security problems as long as we're our own worst enemy.

We'll never solve these security problems. FTFY

Welcome to the real world, where the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. And even that's not a 100% guarantee. Not much has changed over the centuries.

Sorry, Barbara, but that's a useless oversimplification of the issues here. There are things that a person or an organization can do the make things more secure and/or more private (the two are not really the same thing). Technical ignorance is certainly a reason that many take your view and just throw up their hands, but the fact is that there are solutions for those willing to expend the effort to understand what's going on.

Comment Re:The lesson here (Score 1) 266

To be clear, because it appears I was not, I don't consider it a corporate responsibility to be truthful, or in any way moral at all. I expect them to pursue profit. Period. Call it whatever you like, I'll use the word "trust" to describe my expectation that no corporation would be so fucking brain-dead stupid to do something like this because, as we have seen, it's going to hurt their profits, a lot.

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